Dell Drivers and Firmware

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Hello I have a new Dell Latitude 3450, Service Tag: 47J7M34 . With:
~13th Gen Intel® Core™ i3-1315U (10 MB cache, 6 cores, 8 threads, up to 4.5 GHz Turbo).
~16 GB: 2 x 8 GB, DDR5, 5600 MT/s (5200 MT/s with 13th Gen Intel® Core™ processors)
~256GB, M.2 2230, TLC PCIe Gen 4 NVMe

Anyways, I am using Manjaro with KDE plasma, and honestly it is working great! I love Manjaro… I have sort of an ongoing question, on if there is some sort of Arch Dell Respository or something for where I can get reliable firmware and driver updates because Manjaro is giving me reports about “missing firmware”. Can anyone provide me some insight on where to get firmware for a Dell laptop such as this one, that is also in conjunction with arch/Manjaro compatibility? The missing firmware it is claiming I have is:

==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: ‘aic94xx’
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: ‘qla1280’
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: ‘qed’
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: ‘qla2xxx’
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: ‘bfa’
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: ‘wd719x’
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: ‘xhci_pci’

Thank you :slight_smile:

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You (probably) can ignore these warnings.

Context: mkinitcpio - ArchWiki

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It’s not claiming it’s missing.
It is telling you that there might (possibly) be something missing.
Unless that hardware (module) is present in your machine - the firmware isn’t needed.

I think it has got something to do with the MODULES listed in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf - but I’m not sure and would need to check

or you could check:
grep -v ^# /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
or
grep MODULES /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
and compare it with
lsmod
output

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pamac build mkinitcpio-firmware
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You can install linux-firmware-qlogic to get rid of some of those warnings. For the rest, you will need to install the corresponding AUR packages. You may also install mkinitcpio-firmware from the AUR that contains most optional firmware.

If a warning only appears when generating a fallback initramfs image, you can safely ignore them if you know you do not use the affected hardware.

See the Arch Wiki’s mkinitcpio article. It contains a table that lists which packages you can install.